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A major power fault in Melbourne’s CBD forced the suspension of Victoria’s busiest regional rail lines on Wednesday morning.
Some services resumed a couple of hours later as bus replacements were organised but the network was still suffering significant delays.
There were major disruptions to V/Line services on Wednesday.
Credit:Justin McManus
The outage is the second this week affecting V/Line trains after a network-wide communications fault shut down services on Monday.
The power outage happened about 4am on Wednesday and affected the building which houses train control facilities, meaning emergency communications systems were limited and several trains were held in position.
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